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New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver has long thrilled fans with tales of masterful villains and their nefarious ways, and the brilliant minds who bring them to justice. Now the author of the Lincoln Rhyme series has collected his award-winning, spine-tingling stories of suspense -- stories that will widen your eyes and stretch your imagination.

This standout collection from Twisted includes "Gone Fishing" in which, a daughter begs her father not to go fishing in an area where there have been a series of brutal killings; a contemporary of the playwright William Shakespeare vows to avenge his family's ruin in All the World's a Stage; in "The Kneeling Soldier," a father's love turns deadly when he protects his only daughter from a stalker, but was the stalker indeed a stalker?; and in the bonus story Interrogation, a detective grills a cold-blooded murderer as to why he killed a perfect stranger.

Diverse, provocative, eerie and inspired, this collection exhibits the amazing range and signature plot twists that have earned Deaver the title "master of ticking-bomb suspense" by People. ... Read more

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Be careful - this is a rip-off
The name of this book is very deceptive and makes it sound like it contans follow up stories in the vein of those in Deaver's book "Twisted" (which is also available in audio format). Lo and behold, it's actually just more stories taken from that book. This audio book should have been named something like "Nocuturne and other stories from Twisted". Based on other reviews I've read, I'm not the only one to have been duped. The stories in "Twisted" are good, but jeers to the publisher for pulling this fast one.

Wonderful Stories!
This is a terrific book I stumbled upon by accident.If you enjoy "Twilight Zone," then you'll love these. Each story had an ending I didn't see coming.And each time I finished one, I ended up with a giant grin on my face and a big "WOW, cool!!!" I must say, I rarely like books of short stories.They're usually very uneven in quality and readability. This is the exception.This is a great book by Jeffery Deaver.Don't miss it! ... Read more

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NO BONE TO PICK WITH THE BONE COLLECTOR...
This is an especially suspenseful thriller made more so by the personal angst of the main character, Lincoln Rhyme. A quadriplegic, forensic ex-detective for the New York City Police Department, Rhyme is brought out of retirement by the police department to assist them in the apprehension of an apparently psychopathic killer who is loose on the streets of New York.

The forays into bits of arcane New York history, as well as the sleuthing done almost entirely through the application of forensics and deductive reasoning, make for a very interesting read. While at times it seems that no one could be as uncannily accurate as Rhyme in deciphering the meaning of the physical evidence, this contrivance does serve to move the plot along. With the story line so engrossing and the crime scenes horrific, as well as ingenious, it is the kind of book that is hard to put down, because you simply cannot wait to see what happens. The surprise ending is the icing on the cake.

Assisting Rhyme with his work is Police Officer Sachs who, while not as compelling a character as Rhyme, is essential to the story. It is her character who does the 'heavy lifting' so to speak. Highly intelligent and resourceful, with an innate appreciation of the importance of physical evidence, she inspects and preserves the crime scenes, as well as gathers the physical evidence from which Rhyme ultimately weaves his magic. She also serves as somewhat of a Deus Ex Machina in that she saves the day in more ways than one.

Sachs is a wonderful foil for Rhyme in that she runs hot to his cold. She is driven by her desire to help others, as well as by her own personal demons, while he is ever the calm, cool, collected clinician, whose desire to preserve a crime scene may supercede the milk of human kindness latent within his emotionally atrophied soul. The personal connection that Rhyme ultimately develops with Officer Sachs is one that leaves you hoping that they will be teamed up again in yet another novel.

NO BONE TO PICK WITH THE BONE COLLECTOR...
This is an especially suspenseful thriller made more so by the personal angst of the main character, Lincoln Rhyme. A quadriplegic, forensic ex-detective for the New York City Police Department, Rhyme is brought out of retirement by the police department to assist them in the apprehension of an apparently psychopathic killer who is loose on the streets of New York.

The forays into bits of arcane New York history, as well as the sleuthing done almost entirely through the application of forensics and deductive reasoning, make for a very interesting read. While at times it seems that no one could be as uncannily accurate as Rhyme in deciphering the meaning of the physical evidence, this contrivance does serve to move the plot along. With the story line so engrossing and the crime scenes horrific, as well as ingenious, it is the kind of book that is hard to put down, because you simply cannot wait to see what happens. The surprise ending is the icing on the cake.

Assisting Rhyme with his work is Police Officer Sachs who, while not as compelling a character as Rhyme, is essential to the story. It is her character who does the 'heavy lifting' so to speak. Highly intelligent and resourceful, with an innate appreciation of the importance of physical evidence, she inspects and preserves the crime scenes, as well as gathers the physical evidence from which Rhyme ultimately weaves his magic. She also serves as somewhat of a Deus Ex Machina in that she saves the day in more ways than one.

Sachs is a wonderful foil for Rhyme in that she runs hot to his cold. She is driven by her desire to help others, as well as by her own personal demons, while he is ever the calm, cool, collected clinician, whose desire to preserve a crime scene may supercede the milk of human kindness latent within his emotionally atrophied soul. The personal connection that Rhyme ultimately develops with Officer Sachs is one that leaves you hoping that they will be teamed up again in yet another novel. ... Read more

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A BRASH AND BREEZY LITTLE MYSTERY...
This is the German text edition of "Manhattan Is My Beat", one of the author's earlier works, and while it is not one of his best efforts, it is still a cut above what is currently proffered by other writers of this genre. Jeffrey Deaver writes with a decidedly contemporary feel, his prose always spare and lean. While he does not dwell unduly on character development, it does not deter from the book, as it is wholly plot driven, with enough twists and turns to keep the reader guessing until the last minute. It makes for a quick, enjoyable read.

The book revolves around a decades old bank robbery in which the million dollars heisted was never recovered. This robbery was memorialized in an old bete noire film entitled "Manhattan is My Beat".Enter the story's unlikely heroine, twenty year old Rune of the purple hair, who works in a video store, squats in an abandoned loft that she calls home, and has an imagination that doesn't quit.

When one of her video customers is killed execution style in his apartment, Rune is drawn into events of the past, as they converge upon the present. The now dead customer had repeatedly rented the film, "Manhattan is My Beat",and Rune firmly believes that there is a connection between his death and the age old bank heist. Her do-or-die resolve to discover why her customer was killed leads the moxie endowed Rune on a merry and dangerous chase. It is one that keeps the reader fully engaged and entertained. ... Read more

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A Nice Thick Collection
Most people will purchase Transgressions simply to read a novella by one of their favourite authors. I myself picked this up just for the Westlake novella inside.I don't think anyone, no matter which author motivated them to buy this, will put down this collection only satisfied by one story.Yes like any various author anthology the quality varies as do the stories fitting into your personal tastes, but I doubt there will be anyone that either doesn't find a new author to check out or at the very least is reminded of the talent of an author they've maybe only read one or two books of a long time ago in the past.Some novellas such as Walking Around Money can only be found in these pages and others such as The Things They Left Behind you may well have already read before (Just After Sunset).

Keller's Adjustment in my opinion is the best of the lot.I've read a few of Block's other books containing stamp collecting hit man Keller, and this is easily the best story.You don't need to have read any previous ones to follow or get the most out of Keller's Adjustment.It reads like a standalone novel with no plots of previous novels given away.Keller a man who used to have no problems getting on a plane in New York and flying anywhere in the US without any serious searching by security for weapons he would take with him to commit the crime or validating his fake ID has had his world suddenly change. The post September 11 2001 demand for the airlines and airports to wake up and take security seriously for domestic flights now means a lot of complications if there's someone that needs to be killed on the other side of the continent.On a road trip across America in a rental car to get to his next victim Keller starts talking to himself out loud, something he's never done before which consequently freaks him out.His target also lives in a high security gated retirement community causing quite the challenge for Keller as well as plenty of time to ponder if a post 9/11 world is really a world where you can have a satisfying career as a hit man.

Walking Around Money although not Westlake's best story or even best Dortmunder novel is an important find for any fan of the late grandmaster's work.You won't find Walking Around Money published anywhere else as it was written after Thieves' Dozen (Westlake's collection of the Dortmunder short stories) was published.In fact it is actually the third last Dortmunder adventure written before Westlake's death and takes place time wise between Watch Your Back and What's So Funny.Important for fans of the series as you find out if repulsive fencer of stolen items Arnie Albright sticks to his rehabilitation.In this adventure Andy Kelp and Dortmunder meet through a friend of a criminal friend an old man named Querk. Querk's angry and bored with his life as a forklift driver, working for a rural printing company who shattered his dreams of using his printing skills he learnt behind bars, which they told him are now obsolete in this computer designed modern world. Querk has plans for counterfeiting currency for a South American country during a night the plant is shut down, however he needs a couple of fellow criminals who don't live in his small town to help with the heavy work and to get it done in time.Like any Dortmunder novel, outside factors and Murphy's Law always play a part in a should be smooth caper not turning out quite that way.

Anne Perry's Hostages about a rural cottage holding a couple and their adult son at gunpoint is interesting, however the husband of the main character is such a racist, bully and just in general not bright or nice guy that you are actually hoping he will be killed and/or the objectives of the Protestant extreme group hoping to replace him as leader will actually come off.

Archibald Lawless, Anarchist at Large was a bit disappointing for me.I've read and enjoyed other Mosley stories and was enjoying this one to begin with about a young guy from the country who moves to New York and notices a weird advertisement for a job in a few different papers so decides to apply. He then meets a very strange man who gives him a list of people and tells him to go visit them and talk to them if he can.When one dies before his eyes he becomes a suspect. However then the story just got a little stupid.

The other stories Corn Maidern by Joyce Carol Oates, Resurrection man by Sharyn McCrumb, Merely Hate by Ed McBain, The Things They Left Behind by Stephen King, Ransome Women by John Farris or Forever by Jeffery Deaver were no stand outs to what those authors normally produce.However I did find McBain's intro to this collection to be a really interesting read.

Fun Anthology
This anthology includes ten crime novellas.

EXCELLENT
Lawrence Block "Keller's Adjustment" -- Block is a master. In this one hitman Keller ponders his future after September 11. Great writing especially dialogue.

Sharyn McCrumb "Resurrection Man" -- This is less crime and more literary. It's about a black graverobber who works for a Georgia university before, during, and after the Civil War. Stars slow but great storytelling.

Anne Perry "Hostages" -- I usually get irritated with Perry because it often seems that she's being paid by the word. This one, however, surprised me. It's lean, mean, and compelling.

Donald Westlake "Walking Around Money" -- Westlake is another master who knows exactly what he's doing and how to do it.

GOOD
Ed McBain "Merely Hate" -- Good procedural with a few twists.

Walter Mosley "Archibald Lawless" -- Interesting if implausible piece about a naive New Orleans young man who gets involved with a larger-than-life personality after moving to New York City.

Stephen King "The Things They Left Behind" -- Per usual, King is repetitive and can't quite pull off a great concept. I kept wanting this September 11 piece to get better, but it never did.

Jeffery Deaver "Forever" -- Deaver just can't end a story. He's got to add twist after twist after twist until the story becomes this unsatisfying scifi thing. Still, Talbot is a great character.

FAIR --
John Farris "The Ransome Women" -- John Farris is one of the worst writers ever. He is just awful. However, he is so bad he sometimes becomes good. Shlocky, soap operish, melodramatic romance novel--you've got to read it to believe it. I was laughing out loud at some of the hackneyed lines and plot twists. I about died when a character and his doomed relative roasted marshmallows over the burning ashes of one of his paintings.

Joyce Carol Oates "The Corn Maiden" -- Oates is not a bad writer. But she's certainly not a good one either. The story was disturbing and really kind of gross. I don't know what it is about Oates, but I get the feeling that she's never lived but only written and read. If that makes any sense.

Forever by Jeffery Deaver
Over approximately the last month, I've slowly made my way through Transgressions, the 2005 anthology of crime-fiction novellas edited by the late Ed McBain. As with most anthologies (especially those composed primarily of "big names"), the results have been of mixed quality. A few stand out among the rest -- among them The Ransome Women by John Farris and The Resurrection Man by Sharyn McCrumb -- but only one stood high enough to be recognized as definitely the best of the bunch: Forever by Jeffery Deaver, an author I'd not previously read.

In Forever, Deaver introduces police statistician Talbot Simms. Tal in a numbers whiz who is happy to remain at his desk, crunching arithmetic means and standard deviations. But when a couple of elderly suicides present themselves as statistical "outliers" (meaning the combination of events fall far outside the norm of mathematical likelihood), Tal declares them "2124" (suspicious) and inadvertently heads toward solving his first case as a "real" police detective.

Deaver skillfully portrays Tal Simms as a novice among veterans, concurrently showing the reader all the tiny details needed to follow procedure. But Tal slowly feels his way along, with the reluctant help of Detective Greg LaTour, who develops a grudging respect for the "Einstein" of his department. Both characters are fully three-dimensional, and I would welcome a series from Deaver featuring them. Forever also features some of the most original plotting and imagination this side of classic science fiction. Odd that I put off reading it for so long, primarily from not knowing his work, because Deaver's is the name I'll come away from Transgressions most praising.

AReading Buffet
Transgressionsprovidesreaders with the opportunity to sample ten different offerings from ten different authors.There is a gritty 87th Precinct novella from Ed Mcbain and a lyrical offering on a child abduction from Joyce Carol Oates.Steven King is well represented with a short but strangely moving tale of a 911 survivor haunted by his souveniers from his unlucky co-workers.

I enjoyed Transgressions for both its quality and variety. While no story in particular was a stand out, each provided a sample of the particular author's style.Like a buffet, a taste is really all you need to determine where (and whether) you will return for second and third helpings.

A smorgasbord of great reads!
After the success of his novel BLACKBOARD JUNGLE, Evan Hunter (Ed McBain) turned to what were then referred to as "novelettes," his subject being the 87th Precinct detectives of Isola (think New York). As time passed, the 87th Precinct novelettes grew to full-length novels. Fifty years later, McBain persuaded nine other mystery, thriller, and horror writers to submit what are now called "novellas" of around a hundred pages each.

The result was one of my most enjoyable reads of 2006. I don't know why I don't read more anthologies. It was in an anthology that I first experienced Stuart Kaminsky, Sharyn McCrumb, and Lawrence Block.

Coincidentally, one of the best novellas in this anthology is one by Block. Block returns with his enigmatic hit man Keller in KELLER'S ADJUSTMENT. Block manages to make us feel empathy for the man. Although he has sex with a Phoenix real estate saleslady, Keller is essentially a lonely man. He needs somebody to talk to. He once had a dog, but a former girlfriend took it with him when she left; he went to a therapist, but the therapist turned into a snoop, and he had to dust him. Unwilling to take a chance on a living breathing entity, Keller buys a stuffed animal to talk to.

Jeffrey Deaver also responded to the call with FOREVER. In it he introduces Tal Simms, a mathematician/statistician working for Westbrook County Sheriff's Department. Simms is considered a "computer geek" by the rest of the detective squad, especially homicide detective Greg "Bear" LaTour. Simms and his eventual partner LaTour are confronted with several suspicious suicides. Older rich couples are killing themselves under dubious circumstances. In most respects, the underdog character Simms is every bit as likable as Lincoln Rhymes. I would definitely buy a full length novel featuring Simms.

A new discovery for me was John Farris.Farris's THE RANSOME WOMEN concerns a beautiful art appraiser named Echo Halloran who agrees to pose for the great artist John Leland Ransome. She's not only flattered, but as a budding artist herself, she wants to learn from him. Her boyfriend, police detective Peter O'Neil, is suspicious, and with good reason. I enjoyed this novella so much I ran right out and bought FURY, THE TERROR Farris's masterwork.

I have to admit that Ed McBain's own contribution, MERELY HATE, was my principal motivation for purchasing the anthology. I needed my 87th Precinct fix, and it's great as usual. It is post 9/11 in Isola, and the detectives are called to investigate the murder of a Muslim cab driver. Through these cab driver murders, McBain capsulizes the reason for the problems in the Mid East.

Other writers who contributed novellas were Donald Westlake, Anne Perry, Joyce Carol Oates, Walter Mosley, Sharyn McCrumb, and Stephen King. All of them were excellent. ... Read more

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First Class Entertainments
Author Graham Greene made a distinction between his "novels" and his "entertainments."This volume of Transgressions is definitely in the entertainment column, and that is no slap.

I know Lawrence Block's work, particularly the Keller tales, so I went for that one first.Mr. Block writes the Keller stories the way Keller works: he circles around the objective, gathering details carefully, and then goes in for the kill.If you don't know Keller, he makes his living as a hit man, and he's quite good at it.You're watching, and maybe even cheering on, a bad guy who is nonetheless quite pleasant.If you can get over that hurdle, go for it.

Mr. Deaver chimes in with an unlikely hero, a police statistician who is not surprisingly the butt of a lot of jokes, and held in some contempt by the self-described "real" cops.This fellow noses out a conspiracy, and gets the real cops on his side, dragging their feet most of the way.I found the ending a little simplistic, but I suspect Mr. Deaver's hero would say it was within the statistical norm.

Good, fun reading.

The Fast and the Furious
I was changing planes in Denver and realized I'd left my John Nance paperback on the last plane. A trip to the airport bookstore gave me the usual array of "already read it" vs. "wouldn't touch it" fiction, but I had another long flight ahead of me. My eye fell on the Deaver/Block edition of "Transgressions" and I thought, well, the Keller story will probably be okay. I really enjoyed "Hit Man" and was less-enchanted with "Hit List", but I expected to buy whatever came off the same assembly line. I balked at the Deaver story at first, having been disappointed by JD several times. My mom is a fan so I always buy copies for her and she passes them back, but they sit in my "nothing else to read" pile.

Reading the forward by Ed McBain left me hungering for some other authors who might have turned him down for this series, and I was also miffed when he stated that the authors appear "in alphabetical order on the cover, and the reverse inside", but I bit the bullet and choked down the Deaver, since I guessed I would never bother with it otherwise.

And I was thrilled! The son-of-a-gun can write, when it suits him! Or maybe the short form is really his home. This is the best book I've ever read by Jeffery Deaver, and although it unfortunately echoes a current television drama, it still strikes me as fairly original and well-rounded. I loved it!

The Larry Block piece was a nice return to our favorite hitman, picking up where we left him plus a few international tragedies. It was great, too. I loved reading the whole thing even after I flew home, staying up the rest of the night to get it all down.

I purchased the Ladies Edition of "Transgressions" (Ann Perry, Joyce Carol Oates, Sharyn McCrumb) at the same time, and so far, the stories look equally well-done.

A nifty double bill...
Just like the good old days at the movies, this is a double feature with a pair of twisty-turny thrillers from a couple masters of the genre, Jeffery Deaver (The Bone Collector) and Lawrence Block (Hit Man, Eight Million Ways To Die, and dozens and dozens more).

I bought this compilation for Block's new Keller story, not particularly having liked anything Deaver's written up to this point. So I read the stories out of sequence, thinking I'd read Block's 'Keller's Adjustment' and then just sell the thing back to the bookstore. But my time with Keller only lasted an hour or so and I still had some time to kill, so I thought, what the h***? I took a chance and gave Deaver a chance to woo me over.

Well, dammit, he did. Deaver's story, 'Forever', stars a prim, manic-obsessive police statistician named Talbot Simms, who begins an investigation into a pair of apparent double suicides after they don't quite fit into his narrow theorem. The story is deftly written, with a likeable (if REALLY quirky) protagonist in Simms - and has all of Deaver's trademarked plot twists. I don't know how far Deaver can take Simms (how many of us really care that much about a mathmatics-obsessed statistitian and his quest for the perfect number?). His profile doesn't easily translate into a viable protagonist for a series, but for a fast read with a very specific scenario, he was perfect.

Block's entry, 'Keller's Adjustment', begins with his hit man Keller on the road, working a job in Florida at the time of 9/11, and wondering if he's still cut out for the life of a contract killer afterwards. Out of all his creations, Keller is Block's most ambiguous character, often seeming to be a conduit for Block to clear out all the accumulated junk built up inside his head: Keller spends most of his time collecting stamps, chewing the fat with his matronly contractor, Dot, or spouting crazy bursts of soul-cleansing stream-of-consciousness while on a job. Here, Block seemingly sets Keller up for his rumored retirement, and as always, Larry throws in heaping bits of the most cynical, pitch-black humor around. My personal favorite - when Keller fantasizes about killing the soccer mom who honks at him at a red light. Whooo! Brought tears to my eyes...

And now, my only real complaint: Even knowing, going in, that Transgressions #1 would be short, since it contains only a pair of novella's - which are usually what? 10,000 to 50,000 words or so? Well, even weighing in at a whopping 352 pages, this volume feels PADDED. The typeface is absolutely HUGE; it's large enough that somebody who's as blind as a bat could read it. And dangit, as much as I love supporting old Larry in his dotage, $7.99 is a lot of cash to shell out for a couple of eensy-weensy stories, even as good as these are; especially when you consider that Block's contribution will also be included in his next Keller novel, Hit Parade (John Keller Mysteries), along with three or four other new stories.

Two great writers...two excellent novellas
Jeffrey Deaver and Lawrence Block have written two outstanding short stories. Deaver's story involves a man obsessed with statistics and works as a police detective when he comes across two suicides that don't seem to "fit" the mathematical odds of suicides in the town in which he works. The plot twists around a few characters and Deaver's writing style kept me interested until the end.

Block's story involves Keller, a hitman, who is beginning to have some various worries and anxieties about his life especially after 9/11. Keller (who is a main character in "Hit Man" and "Hit List" by Block) meets with his contact (Dot) and finds himself in various situations all the while worrying and thinking about his life. Block writes a great book and this novella opens up more avenues for Keller in future books in that particular series. Keller is funny at times, insightful and intelligent at other times, and the story moves quickly wit a solid plot.

I read the book in just a few hours. It's a fun read and well worth the time. ... Read more

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Hollywood location scout John Pellam thought the scenic backwater town of Maddox, Missouri, would be the perfect site for an upcoming gangster film. Until real bullets leave two people dead and one cop paralysed. Pellam had unwittingly wandered onto the crime scene just moments before the brutal hits. Now the feds and local police want him to talk. Mob enforcers want him silenced. And a mysterious blonde just wants him. Trapped in a town full of sinister secrets and deadly deceptions, Pellam fears that deal will imitate art, as the film shoot - and his life - race toward a breathtakingly bloody climax. ... Read more

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Great!
I bought this collection on audio CD to listen in my car as I drive to and from work, and I have to say this made sitting in traffic almost tolerable! great stories and excellent detective work by Lincoln Rhyme! A+++

A Wonderful Collection of Lincoln Rhyme Novels.
THE LINCOLN RHYME CD COLLECTION
BY Jeffery Deaver
PUBLISHED BY Simon & Schuster Audio
REVIEWED BY Barbara Rhoades

This audio book is three times as much enjoyment if you are a fan of the Lincoln Rhyme series.It contains three of Jeffery Deaver's book:The Coffin Dancer, The Empty Chair and The Stone Monkey.It also has an excerpt from Mr. Deaver's newest book "The Twelfth Card".

The Coffin Dancer:What do you get when you cross a quadriplegic, forensic science and an apartment full of high tech equipment?You get Lincoln Rhyme, the best detective in New York City.And he has to face The Coffin Dancer again.He has killed Ed Carney, husband and co-owner of Hudson Air, a small freight company.Rhyme is called in to help the NYPD stop him.

Rhyme forms a team of the best people, Amelia Sachs, his right-hand person, Tom, his faithful care giver, DelRay, the street hardened black cop and Mel Cooper, the best lab technician anyone could ask for.This team has 48 hours to stop The Coffin Dancer before he kills Ed's wife, Percy and Brit, Ed's best friend.

The Coffin Dancer is very good as he leaves no trace evidence.So in order to catch him, they must be able to think like he does.From an airplane blowing up to safe houses being breached to landing an airplane safely that has an altitude bomb aboard, the Dancer keeps the team on its toes.And just to keep things interesting, Amelia and Rhyme have a romantic entanglement going!

Joe Mantegna reads this book and has the ability to provide each character with their own voice.A listener has no trouble knowing exactly which character is speaking.Mr. Mantegna speaks clearly and uses inflections in all the right places.

The Empty Chair:Corporate greed is the theme of this story.Garrett Handlin lost his parents and sister when he was only a child.He begins an interest in insects to ease the pain of this loss.Then as a teenager, he kidnaps Mary Jo and the Lydia.

Lincoln Rhyme comes to a hospital near Tanner's Corner to have surgery in the hopes of getting more movement.The Tanner's Corner sheriff comes begging for Rhyme's help to solve the kidnappings. Rhyme has some time before the surgery and begins an investigation.

Garrett is captured and Sachs believes he is innocent.She takes matters into her own hands and breaks Garrett out of jail.In the chase that follows, Sachs kills a deputy.

Not until the final moments of Sachs' trial are all the facts reveled and the real culprit is known which clears Sachs of the murder charges.

Joe Mantegna has a way with voices so you know just who is speaking.His inflections are a perfect addition to the actual words of the story.

The Stone Monkey:This is a story of human smuggling and the need for political asylum.The first few chapters are rather long and drawn out as the story is being set up.It reminds me of the way Tom Clancy goes into great and long details of setting up a story.After the first few chapters, the story returns to the true Lincoln Rhyme writing so being patient through them pays off as the rest of the story is great.

"The Ghost" has smuggled in Chinese dissidents but sinks the ship and begins killing all the passengers when the NYPD shows up just before the boat makes landfall.Between the INS, the State Department, the NYPD and a Chinese police officer, you don't know who to trust.Lincoln uses his forensic techniques to figure out who "The Ghost" really is and prevents him from being returned to China where he would go free rather than pay for all the people he has killed.

The secondary story is about Rhyme's upcoming surgery which Sachs doesn't want him to have.Listen to see what his decision will be.

The Twelfth Card:This is a small excerpt and tells a tale of a girl in today's world wanting to learn about her slave ancestors and what happened to him.She is reading in the History Museum when she notices she is being stalked.She is clever and gets away but in doing so sets off the alarm.The stalker blends into the crowd and returns to the Museum to see what the police have come up with........and this is where the CD ends.

The Civil War history is of interest to me so I will be sure to get The Twelfth Card and finish listening to the whole story. ... Read more

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A sadistic computer hacker infiltrates people's computers and lures them to their deaths. The California State Police Computer Crimes Unit frees former hacker Wyatt Gillette to aid in their investigation. As Gillette attempts to trace the hacker's insidious computer virus to its source, one of the division's own is murdered. Teamed with homicide detective Frank Bishop, Gillette must combine their talents to catch a killer. Description in Spanish: El asesino del relato responde al apodo de Phate, pero su verdadero nombre es John Patrick Holloway. Aparentemente no es mas que un hacker, un inofensivo pirata informatico. Pero su mente perversa ha ideado un programa llamado Trapdoor, el cual le permite asaltar los ordenadores de sus victimas potenciales iniciando un juego macabro cuyo objetivo final es la eliminacion del usuario elegido. Para atrapar a este peligroso psicopata, la policia recurre a la ayuda de Wyatt Gillete, un hacker experto que cumple un ano de condena en la carcel por un delito menor. Es preciso actuar deprisa, pues los asesinatos se suceden uno tras otro en este siniestro territorio del suspense de la red. ... Read more

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A quadriplegic since a beam crushed his spinal cord years ago, renowned detective Lincoln Rhyme is desperate to improve his condition and goes to the University of North Carolina Medical Center for high-risk experimental surgery. But he and his beloved forensic assistant, Amelia Sachs, have hardly settled in when the local authorities come calling a disturbed teenager known, for reasons that become graphically clear, as the Insect Boy, has murdered a local football hero and abducted two young women. Lincoln must examine the trace evidence found at the abduction site in the faint hope of pinpointing the kidnapper's location.Description in Spanish: Lincoln Rhyme, está en un centro universitario especializado en neurología a la espera de una operación que podría mejorar su estado. Cuando le piden que colabore con la policía de Tanners Corner, una pequeña ciudad de Carolina del Norte, en la búsqueda de una chica secuestrada, no sabe que al aceptar pondrá en peligro su vida y la de su colega Amelia Sachs. El secuestrador es un chico conflictivo, cuyos padres han muerto en un misterioso accidente automovilístico. Es además muy aficionado a los insectos. Su forma de vida hace que se le culpe de todas las cosas extrañas que han ocurrido en la ciudad, incluidas algunas muertes.Desde un laboratorio improvisado, Lincoln, se enfrenta a la impaciencia de la justicia por resolver este nuevo y espeluznante caso. ... Read more